What is female hysteria?
Hysteria woman was a common medical diagnosis assigned to women to describe a set of symptoms, including lightness, nervousness, insomnia, loss of appetite and a wide range of others. The diagnosis was common and commonly discussed in the 19th century, although it was accepted as a real and serious illness for hundreds of years before. Female hysteria no longer accepts the medical community as a correct or adequate diagnosis. "Hysteria" was often used as a diagnosis of catches, which reflected the lack of knowledge of diversity and complexity of psychological conditions and increased knowledge has since led to more accurate diagnoses.
No single, accurate list of symptoms that doctors could classify cases of female hysteria. In many cases, any combination of poorly defined symptoms or even behavior patterns that differed from social expectations could be labeled as female hysteria. In some cases the "affected" women were asked to seek the treatment of aberrant behavior men in their lifeLike fathers, husbands or others, whether women have experienced some discomfort or thought they were somehow sick. The nature of the diagnosis of female hysteria generally reflected the nature of gender relationships at least as well as reflecting the insufficiency of knowledge in the field of psychological diagnosis.
common treatment for women's hysteria also reflects gender relationships at a time when the "condition" prevailed. Doctors would give a "pelvic massage" or manual stimulation of female genitalia until the "affected" individual has achieved the state of "hysterical paroxysm" now understood as an orgasm. It was not generally considered to be cured hysteria, so a "affected" woman would have to look for this form of treatment regularly. Various devices have been invented to make this treatment process more efficient and convenient for both the patient and for individual treatment.
cases of female hysteria at the beginning of the 20th century have declined significantly. He knew the increasedTheness and adoption of psychology led to a slightly better understanding of the nature of the disorder. Doctors and psychologists understood a wider range of more specific psychological disorders that have replaced a wide diagnosis of hysteria. Freud's psychoanalysis provided another approach to treatment and tried to prove that many cases of female hysteria were in fact a neurosis based on some form of anxiety or the traumatic past events in the life of the affected individual.